COXTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



ZOOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE HORSE, .... . 61 



CHAPTER VI. 



EXTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE HORSE 63 



The head : frontal bones: frontal sinuses, used for the discovery of glanders : Ihe 

 parietal: temporal: arched form of the skull: designed strength of the base of lie 

 arch: occipital, attachment of the strong ligaments of the neck to it: the sphenoid 

 andiEthmoid: the brain: medullary and cineritious portions: the nerves* spinal co?d: 

 spinal nerves, consisting of fibres of sensation and motion, and others devoted to 

 respiration: the sympathetic or organic nerve, at the base of the skull, devoteil to 

 nutrition and circulation. The ear, beauty of, indicative of temper, folly of crop- 

 ping or singeing; the internal ear: beautiful mechanism of, the drum, the little 

 bones, the expansion of the nerve. The eye : the lids, substitution for eye-brows, 

 eye-lashes, tears, situation of the lachrymalgland : the haw, beautiful mechanism of 

 It, barbarous practice of destroying it : the conjunctiva: cornea, importance of its 

 perfect transparency, directions for examining it: the sclerotica: choroid coat, its 

 black colour, the beautiful colour and use of the lucid carpet within the eye: the 

 aqueous humour: iris: the wall-eyed horse: the j)upil, importance likewise of care- 

 fully e.xamining it: the lens: vitreous humour: retina: theory of vision: shying: 

 muscles of the eye : the one peculiar to quadrupeds to retract it from danger. 



CHAI>TER VIL 

 DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND EYE 100 



Fracture of the skull: pressure on the brain: megrims: apoplexy: stomach- 

 staggers, arising usually from mismanagement: mad staggers: locked jaw or teta- 

 nus: epilepsy or fits: palsy: rabies or madness : neurotomy, method of performing 

 the operation, diseases of the foot for which beneficial. Diseases of the eye: 

 wounds: warts: enlargement of the haw : inflammation of the eye : opacities of the 

 cornea : cataract : gutta serena, or glass eye. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



NOSE AND MOUTH, AND THEIR DISEASES, '.11 



Anatomy of the nose: Roman nose: cartilage of the nose: turbinated bores: 

 wideness of the nostril, advantage of: importance of observing the colour of the 

 membrane of the nose: discharge from the nose. Glanders, symptoms of, how dis- 

 tinguished from strangles or cold: primarily a disease of the membrane of the nose: 

 connected with farcy: tiiey are different forms of the same disease; causes of conta- 

 gion : hot and foul stables: debilitating disease: highly contagious: preventior. : 

 treatment. Farcy, a disease of the absorbents: farcy buds: syrnjjtoms: trcament. 

 The lips, the organs of touch: lips, how formed: bearing lein, necessity for: bones 

 of the mouth: the palate, method of bleeding from: lampas: the lower jaw, curi- 

 ous mechanism of the joint of, contrived to grind the food. Teeth, their growth and 

 changes from birth, as indicative of the age: wolves' teeth: diseases of the teeth 

 Description of the tongue: vesicles under the tongue: the salivary glands: the par- 

 otid: the submaxillary' and sublingual: strangles: canker in the mouth : woun.^s in 

 the mouth : description of the pharyn.x. 



